@Jeff, ahhughes: as far as the built-in GWT widgets, they are well-
designed and fine for simple things, but if your requirement is to
have a grid that supports full-row inline editing, grouping,
filtering, frozen columns, paging through large datasets, resizable/
reorderable headers with persistence, nested headers, all of this
active at once - or if you need even a significant subset of this
functionality - this will take you a minimum of 2 years with core GWT
and you will achieve it really only with a ground-up custom widget
that you will need to maintain. So it's just a matter of recognizing
that many people have requirements that go way, way beyond the core
GWT widgets. Google employees have posted a number of times
acknowledging this.
Note that even if you don't have hard requirements for these features,
the fact is that they make your application better, and you will never
have to deal with a user request for such a feature: it's already
there.
ahhughes as far as your #2, please point to examples. Almost everyone
who has *actually tried* SmartGWT remarks on the extremely low number
of bugs.
@Tercio, mariyan: unclear on why you found server integration with the
SmartGWT LGPL version difficult. All you need to do is expose your
EJBs as REST services and there are countless tutorials on the web on
how to do this, as well as frameworks that can do this from Java
annotations. People achieve this all the time.
Tercio in particular, I'm guessing this was you:
http://forums.smartclient.com/showthread.php?t=5632
You took the wrong approach, and our Support staff told you it wasn't
a good idea and gave you appropriate alternatives.
As far as "useless" features, if you think they're useless, you
frankly have not absorbed what they actually do. Remember, Isomorphic
is a consulting company too. We build applications in defense, life
sciences, insurance, financials and many other verticals. We use the
features of Pro/EE *every single time*.
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